Frequently Asked Questions

The Escape Rooms

The ethos behind Cryptology is to actively encourage teamwork, creating an experience to be shared and remembered with others. Cryptology has developed this core concept to create unique adventures within Nottingham, with the option to explore further around the city than other leisure pursuits allow.

With Escape Rooms popping up all around the country, something needed to be different. Something that stood out and embraced working as a team and most importantly, keep you talking about the experience to each other and people you know. Cryptology has embraced this thinking to create a unique experience in the heart of Nottingham city centre, with the option to also expore the centre in a new way with the Robin Hood Group Detectives game.

If you are visiting Nottingham for most of the day, the NCP Car Park near Broadmarsh at the end of Castle Boulevard / start of Collin Street offers 24 hours' of parking for £4.50. A reasonably priced car park, and the closest to us, is based on Upper Parliarment Street from Euro Car Parks. Nearby street parking is free after 8pm, and only £1 or £2 from 6pm-8pm. All car parking can be found here. We recommend the use of public transport and we are a few minutes walk of the city centre's bus stops, and 15-20 minute walk from the main train station.

The rooms are very immersive and therefore our time is taken in providing an exciting experience for our guests. Therefore, if you are ringing and there is no answer, it's more than likely we are doing just this. Please leave a text or answerphone message with the best way to contact you and we will get back to you as soon as possible, or pop us an email via the contact form.

The easiest method is to book via this website. Simply look at the date you wish to attend and see if there are any slots free on that day. However, if you prefer a more human touch, please feel free to give us a call.

If you are playing one of the rooms, expect the experience to last 75 minutes from start to finish. Once you are in the room you have an hour to complete it. There is a small briefing and some post-escape-analysis. If you are playing the Robin Hood Discovery Tour experience, it can take as long as you need it to take. However, it usually takes between 2 and 3 hours, depending on how quick your legs carry you and how fast your minds work together. If you have booked this experience for later in the day, you must be back at Cryptology for 7:30pm.

Each of the booking slots includes 15 minutes for your briefing for the room. Please arrive on the time your booking slot is made for, as if you arrive too early, we may be resetting the room from the previous group. If you are running late, please let us know as soon as you can. If you arrive too late on a busy day, we will need to deduct time off your room.

The first rule of thumb is, have you searched everywhere? Is there anything you may have dismissed? We are close to hand should you be stuck, however, we do not want to take the enjoyment away so will offer hints rather than answers.

Your name, email address and telephone number will not get passed to anybody else. We do not sell your details on. At the end of the event we will ask if you would like your picture taken as a group so we can use this for our marketing material. We will be happy to supply you the images we take. If you do not want appearing online, you only need to let us know.

Yes we do. We have a meeting room that can be used if you require a separate space on top of the escape rooms. We can offer bespoke packages based on your requirements, please contact us for more information.